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Billy Joel, Maria Shriver featured in PBS doc

The Associated Press

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08/07/2014 05:14:21 AM MDT

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FILE - In this Monday, Jan. 27, 2014, file photo, Billy Joel performs the first show of his Madison Square Garden residency, in New York. Baby boomers Joel, Maria Shriver and Samuel L. Jackson will be among those featured in an upcoming PBS documentary about the post-World War II generation. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) — Billy Joel, Maria Shriver and Samuel L. Jackson — baby boomers all — will be among those featured in an upcoming PBS documentary about the post-World War II generation.

PBS announced Thursday that "American Masters: The Boomer List" will air Sept. 23 on member stations. The 90-minute production, directed by filmmaker-photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, will include 19 notable public figures. Their years of birth represent each of the years commonly associated with the baby boom era, 1946-64. The list also includes Rosie O'Donnell, Tommy Hilfiger and Steve Wozniak.

Greenfield-Sanders' portraits of the interviewees will be included in a companion coffee table book and in an exhibit at the Newseum in Washington, D.C. "The Boomer List: Photographs by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders" will run at the Newseum from Sept. 26 through June 2015.

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